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REID IT HERE FIRST See News, page 8.

WILL ANYONE HEAR THEM FALL? See Green, page 11.

BREAK A LEG See Arts&Culture, page 16.

JUST SAY

YES See 15 Minutes, page 31.

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LETTERS Gold standards

Ground floor opportunity Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m sitting here chomping at the bit. I’m actually somewhat ahead of deadline—my general state these days. It’s basically because I’m working on this master’s degree; I’m so busy I never have a moment to get off task. It kind of relates to that “flow experience” I wrote about last week.

But that’s not why I’m chomping at the bit. It’s because when I get home today, I’m going to have new hardwood floors in my house.

You folks who’ve been reading this newsweekly for a few years know that every year around tax refund time, I do a big project. Last year, my big project got sidelined because my car developed a mechanical issue, and the mechanic shoved his ratchet wrench sideways up my ass, fixing a bunch of secondary issues while leaving the check engine light bright amber.

I got a new mechanic, Kelly Enget, Jr., and I’m quite happy with him. The Jeep is running better than it has in a long time.

My buddy Bill Ring put the floors in. He’s a perfectionist, which drives a guy crazy while he’s waiting for the work to get finished, but whose attention to detail will be fully appreciated for many years to come.

Bill and I are good friends, and he’s put floors in my houses for 14 years or so. I totally respect his craftsmanship. I believe that anything— the cut of a lawn, the placement of a verb, the exterior of a government building—should be judged on its quality, its rightness. A small home can exhibit more quality than a mansion—it’s all about the pride taken in the work. Both Bill’s and Kelly’s work exhibits that character I’m talking about.

Barring some disaster, this floor will be firmly underfoot in that house long after I’m gone. But I’ll be able to walk away knowing that I made the decisions that will give the next residents firm footing.

Re “Back to the Gold Mine” (Left Foot Forward, Feb. 14): In Sheila Leslie’s column, “Back to the Gold Mine,” regarding Barrick’s newly constructed mine in the Dominican Republic, she creates an off-base, apples-to-almonds comparison when she directly compares Barrick’s contributions in a sovereign nation to those in Nevada, one of 50 states within a larger nation.

While using the Dominican’s federal tax rates for comparison, Leslie fails to mention that Barrick also pays federal income taxes on its Nevada mines in addition to paying all the same state taxes paid by every Nevada business. On top of these taxes, Barrick pays a 5 percent net proceeds on minerals tax that no other Nevada industry pays, which was prepaid in the amount of approximately $150 million in 2012. When combining various federal, state and local taxes, Barrick pays an overall tax rate of about 43 percent—not far from the 50 percent the Dominican government will receive from the Pueblo Viejo Mine—and expects Nevada mines to generate $2.6-3 billion in revenue over the next five years.

The Dominican Republic operation is distinct from the United States in that it was acquired through auction and an agreement with the government as the owner of the company that owed the existing mine and offered the known reserve of 20 million ounces of gold for future development. The agreement with the Dominican government allows recovery of the capital investment before certain payments kick in.

Ms. Leslie draws a failed comparison. If we want real progress in Nevada, all of us need to work thoughtfully toward a compromise that serves all Nevadans.

Michael J. Brown Barrick Gold, North America Washington D.C.

No worries Re “Back to the Gold Mine,” and others (Left Foot Forward): Please accept my sincere appreciation and congratulations on the

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needed and insightful political contribution to your paper made by Sheila Leslie. I believe many of us greatly miss her presence in the legislature and look forward to her early return.

You have at least provided a needed forum for her honest insights. Please convey my thanks to her.

Next, this sequestration will not involve any budget cuts. While the President plays the scare card with threats of draconian layoffs of teachers, prison guards, air controllers and border patrol, along with criminals not prosecuted, military equipment not repaired, and children not fed, a little research shows something quite different.

The only cuts here are to the increases over last year’s spending.

Read that sentence again. The budget is going up, just not as much as the president wants.

So are the president and the liberals consciously lying to us? Or are they just so incompetent that they really can’t make ends meet with 3,500 BILLIONS of our dollars? In either case, it’s pretty clear we have the wrong people leading us.

Gary Horton Reno

Our pleasure Re “Back to the Gold Mine,” and others (Left Foot Forward): Thanks for carrying Sheila Leslie’s column each week. It’s the best column in your paper, and it becomes a topic of conversation for me and my friends. We appreciate her common sense approach to Nevada’s problems, and we are glad to have a link to other sites for further information. Keep up the good work. You have a great little paper.

Robert R. Kessler Las Vegas

Total BS

Janice Flanagan Reno

Re “Going soft” (Film, Feb. 21): “Anybody who whined that the previous chapter Live Free or Die Hard ... will discover that film, which I happened to like a lot, was a party compared to this one.” No way. That is total BS. A Good Day to Die Hard is light years better than the total crap Live Free or Die Hard. A Good Day to Die Hard is most certainly a weak Die Hard, but at least his relationship with his son humanizes John McClane. In Live Free, he was a total superhero with no sense of humanity sleepwalking through the film.

Neither film is great, but if one needs to choose between the two, choose A Good Day.

Not exactly Re “Killer ex-cop causes justice reevaluation” (The Liberty Belle, Feb. 21): Let me see if I have this correct: Chanelle Bessette is at least acknowledging that it is understandable for Christopher Dorner to act in the manner he did because he claims to have been unfairly terminated by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Ergo, anyone who feels unfairly treated should seek retribution through violent means.

I believe that Ms. Bessette has already stumbled on her own slippery slope.

Joe Fargus Philadelphia

Walter Prendergast Reno

You’re welcome

A win-win

Re “The Game” (Feature story, Feb. 7): I want to thank you for this story.

I am the mother of the two teenage girls, 12 and 14 years old. I planned to start a program in Reno when I read this story. I plan on dedicating my life to taking a stand against pedophiles and pimps. I want [to show] other parents they’re not alone and help the girls and get them off

Listening to the President’s rhetoric about the catastrophic consequences of sequestration, I’m struck by the inconsistencies in his comments.

First, the sequestration was his idea, one that he promised he would not allow to be changed. Now he doesn’t seem to be able to take yes for an answer.

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the street. My 14-year-old wants to tell her story and inspire others like this story did for her. It has been a very hard road, but we have had a lot of support from agencies in Reno. I would like to thank the Reno Police Department street team and gang units for doing a great job.

Name withheld Reno

Word of mouth I am 76 years old and enjoy reading Reno News & Review very much, but please instruct your advertising department to not print ads with a black background and small red letters like the Fresh Bakin ad in your latest edition. I am old, but I challenge an 18-year-older to read it.

Also, I know times are tough now but how about just a teensy bit of bolder, and maybe a little larger print on your main articles. From an old fart who still wants to stay informed.

Dan Archuleta Sparks

Blue all over Re: “Game change” (Feature story, Feb. 21): For many years, the Democrats have said that they represent the workers. The Republicans have avoided saying that they represent the rich and the super-rich, but their actions show that they do.

GOP candidate for president Mitt Romney didn’t hide the fact that he has fortune here in the states and more in Switzerland, more in Bermuda, and even more in the Cayman Islands. The millionaires, the billionaires and the wannabes voted for him, but the rest of us said, “Hell, no!” More and more people, not just in Nevada, but across the country, are recognizing that the Republican Party has nothing for us.

Look at the gridlock in Washington, D.C. I have reached the conclusion that the true meaning of GOP is Greedy Obstructionist Plutocrats.

Brad MacKenzie Reno

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by Dennis Myers

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Tell us about the craziest dog you’ve known Asked at Animal Control/Humane Society Complex, 2825 Longley Lane Ari Puente Health management specialist

Gosh, I don’t know. I’ve never really seen a really, really, really wild one.

They’ve all been pretty mellow. My favorite dog lived with me for about two years, and then we lost him. He was very, very, great—awesomest dog.

Patrick Cummings Job seeker

Petal. Two years old. Loves to chase her Frisbee, and once she gets it, she won’t let it go. She loves to chase it, but she won’t give it back. She’s a rescue dog.

Ron Mentgen Retiree

Size matters

A friend of ours just adopted a small dog that had been abused. It’s an unusual breed. It’s just a darling dog, but I had never heard of [the breed] before. It’s becoming acquainted and rehabilitated, and turning into a marvelous pet.

The way journalists are over-awed by people with titles in the trenches. The senators are not the experts. If anyone was on full display last week in a story involving the Tahoe was being defiant, it was the senators. They were defying fully informed environmentalists who know the terrain.

Regional Planning Agency.

Placement and size matter. When a newspaper and The Tahoe Daily Tribune performed the laudable a wire service elevate one viewpoint over another—and service of disclosing a letter from U.S. Sens. Dianne devote much more space to one than the other—it sends a Feinstein and Harry Reid urging the Sierra Club to go slow message about the validity of those competing views. The in confronting the TRPA over its pending master plan, Tribune and the AP put an imprimatur on the Feinstein/ though the Club subsequently sued TRPA. Reid stance while trivializing the Sierra Club’s position.

The first paragraph of the Tribune article read, “Federal It’s true that the Nevada Legislature in 2011 enacted legislators urged the Sierra Club not to delay the Tahoe a bill to pull Nevada out of the TRPA unless pro-growth Regional Planning Agency’s regional plan update prior to people got their way. But that should the environmental group’s challenge to be treated as a related but separate the wide-ranging plan this week.” issue. Tahoe affairs can’t stop because So far, so good. The lead gave the Placement and Nevada has painted itself into a corner senators their say. But where was the on pullout from TRPA. Pullout would second sentence? That sentence should size matter. never have been enacted if Democrats have read, “But the Club responded and Gov. Sandoval had not been trying that it was forced to sue after TRPA to curry favor with moneyed interests and believed they refused to negotiate on improvements to the plan.” could do it without actually risking a pullout because that The Sierra Club’s viewpoint was left for paragraphs 11, 12 and 13, all the way at the end of the story. In a 609-word decision was down the road. While the pullout measure was enacted Sen. Reid was silent—though he found time story, the Sierra Club was not heard from until 408. An in his message to the legislators to discuss a dead-onAssociated Press rewrite of the story used a similar frame. arrival proposal about brothels. Well, down the road is In the Reno Gazette-Journal, that meant the attack by now and since the politicians have gotten their mileage the senators was splashed across the top of the front page, out of that measure, the Democrats should come back to while the Sierra Club made its case inside the paper, on life and repeal it. the jump page—which, of course, many readers never see.

U.S. senators, other politicians, corporations, execuMoreover, the day’s main headline portrayed the Sierra tives, people with money all have an easy time getting Club as conducting lèse-majesté against—gasp!—the two public attention. It’s the others, the workers, the people in senators: “Tahoe suit defied warnings.” the trenches, the gadflies, the activists, the minorities, who It is the Sierra Club that is on the front lines. The two have trouble getting a hearing. There’s no reason to make it senators, briefed by their aides on the matters at issue, harder on them. Ω stood off at a safe distance and dissed the Sierra Clubbers OPINION

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The one I have now that I just came to rescue. He was picked up by Animal Control this morning. I adopted him two months ago. He had been running around Lake Tahoe. He’s pretty. He’s very friendly, loves everybody, but he also loves to run. I get to know the nice people here.

Terri Braunworth Humane Society worker

Hard to say. I wouldn’t call them crazy.

I would say some of them are exuberant.

Here right now, Tank. He’s a very tall dog. He looks like he’s wearing stilts.

He’s a love. He’s a giant puppy. He’s about 11 months old, and he acts like he’s 8 weeks old. Tank’s the one that stands out in my head right now.

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Invest in children When I heard President Obama propose to work with states “to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America,” I instantly thought of a conversation I’d had with businessman Michael Dermody back in 1987. He was excited about the findings of the HighScope Perry by Preschool Study that clearly demonSheila Leslie strated that early education saves $7 for every $1 it costs because as adults these children commit fewer crimes, have fewer babies in their teens, are more likely to be employed, and earn much larger salaries over time.

Mr. Dermody was impressed with this return on investment, as any rational businessman would be, and it was one of the main reasons the Children’s Cabinet created the Child Care Resource and Referral program and began investing its energy and resources in early childhood education.

Almost 30 years later, President Obama surprised me and many advocates by calling for universal preschool for every 4-year-old in the country, citing two states we

don’t often think of as progressive: Georgia and Oklahoma. In 1995, Georgia became the first state with universal preschool, funded by a state lottery. Oklahoma has had universal preschool since 1998, and has shown demonstrable improvements in students’ academic, cognitive and emotional abilities.

The Obama preschool plan will create a new federal-state cost-sharing partnership to guarantee high-quality preschool for all low- and moderateincome 4-year-olds, including families that earn up to 200 percent of the poverty level. Other families will be able to pay on a sliding scale with incentives for full-day kindergarten.

The Department of Education will allocate the federal funds to states based on a population formula and an agreement to use standards that include “well-trained teachers, who are paid comparably to K-12 staff,” as well as small class sizes and a “rigorous” curriculum.

Criticism of universal pre-school predictably comes from the far-right, led by former Sen. Rick Santorum

who insists that early childhood education “indoctrinates” children and makes them “dependent on government at an early age.” During his failed presidential campaign, he called the idea a “ploy for socialists to take your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be.”

More mainstream critics cite funding as the major objection, with the Center for American Progress estimating the president’s plan would cost about $98 billion over 10 years.

The Center also correctly points out the reason why so many low-income families do not currently utilize highquality pre-school: cost. Families who earn less than $1,500 a month would have to spend about 53 percent of their income on pre-school, an unreasonable proposition when there is rent to be paid and basic needs to be provided.

Returning to Nevada, we naturally maintain a firm hold on last place in education rankings, according to the 2012 Kids Count Report, as 71 percent of our 3- and 4-year-olds are

not enrolled in preschool, while 44 percent of our high school students drop out before graduation. We constantly hear griping from business leaders about the unprepared workforce and many are quick to blame greedy teachers, distracted parents and unmotivated students, when really the answer is as clear today as it was to Michael Dermody back in 1987.

So how about it, Gov. Sandoval?

Now would be the time to contact the president and tell him we’re ready to move Nevada out of last place by designing a powerful, high-quality universal pre-school program. Let Nevada lead the way with a dedicated funding source, perhaps copying Georgia’s state lottery idea, and show the nation we’re ready to invest in our children. Let’s attract quality businesses the old-fashioned way, with an enviable pre-K to college educational system that values its teachers and students.

Don’t you think that would be a legacy worth having? Ω

For more information about the HighScope Perry Preschool Study, check out http://high scope.org/Content. asp?ContentId=219.

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Nuclear energy is the bomb “Radioactive” is not just a new hit song by Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons. In fact, nuclear energy is the future of Nevada and the United States as a whole. Yucca Mountain evokes raw emotion, mostly fear, and a kneejerk NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) reaction. But perhaps it’s time for by Chanelle Bessette us to re-evaluate our preconceptions about nuclear energy and embrace Nevada’s historical relationship with it as a source of revenue and energy innovation.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration and the Department of Energy said that by 2048, the U.S. will establish a permanent national nuclear waste repository facility.

Nearly 50 years after Congress mandated a deadline for Yucca Mountain to be in operation, nuclear waste, for the time being, may not be considered as much of an issue for Nevadans as it once was—and this is beside the point that while many Nevadans are upset by the threat of a repository, many can’t even point out Yucca Mountain on a map.

Nuclear energy has had great success in other parts of the world as a clean, effective, sustainable and relatively inexpensive means of generating power. In France, more than 75 percent of its electricity comes from its nuclear technology, and 17 percent of that is from recycled nuclear fuel. In 2012, it was estimated that France gains over 3 billion euros annually from exporting its electricity.

These numbers are staggering, and Nevada could be among the pioneers to bring the nuclear revolution to the United States.

The organization Nevadans 4 Carbon Free Energy, www.nv4cfe. org, is a nonpartisan group that is currently seeking to implement the Nevada Energy Park, a project “for the storage of nuclear spent fuels, reprocessing those fuels and generating power.” Through the Energy Park, the group estimates that billions of dollars will be brought to Nevada in nuclear commerce such as research, technology and jobs. Modern designs exist for safe, inexpensive, small-format

self-contained reactors that produce sufficient power for a neighborhood’s electricity, heating and cooling, and hot water over a long period (years) without need of refueling or maintenance. Some estimates say that 30 years worth of energy could be provided to a neighborhood for only $40,000 total, a significantly less expensive route than traditional energy sources. In addition, most of the energy generated from Hoover Dam is sold to southern California, while Reno and Las Vegas get their electricity from fossil fuels and some geothermal resources. The development of nuclear power could greatly simplify Nevada’s energy needs.

The trick to making nuclear technology possible and widely encouraged is education. For example, most people don’t know what nuclear waste looks like. A single unit of nuclear waste is about the size of a jelly bean. It’s solid, not gaseous or oozing green liquid, and the whole unit is comprised of 30 percent nuclear waste and 70 percent ceramic coating, all

packaged within several containers and layers of protection. It’s difficult to imagine that someone could be exposed to the toxicity of the waste by accident. But the thing is, reprocessing removes the need to even store waste, and nuclear engineers can tell exactly how much of each compositional element is left over and process it into something useful.

Reliance on carbon-based means of energy is ultimately unsustainable, and the opportunities for private enterprise in the field of nuclear technology are vast and lucrative. Nuclear is cheaper than most other forms of energy, including coal, geothermal, wind and solar, and while there is high initial overhead for operating a nuclear power plant, the long-term benefits are worth it. Science supports nuclear technology as a viable source of energy. The prevention of nuclear power development in Nevada stems from ignorance and political pandering to people who don’t understand its potential as an energy source. Ω

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Carson City sheriff’s cars blocked Fifth Street adjacent to the legislative building during Sen. Harry Reid’s speech, generating complaints.

Sheriff Ken Furlong said his office was just assisting, and the decision to close the street was made at the legislature. The legislative police office said its chief, Bob Milby, is not allowed to speak to the press.

Free chips The county’s Animal Services is offering free microchips to all Washoe County pet owners during the next year.

Two clinics have already been held. The next ones are as follows: • Tuesday, March 5: Cold Springs Park, 3355 White Lake Parkway, noon to 4 p.m.

• Saturday, March 16, 2970 Northtowne Lane (Petco), 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Tuesday, March 19, 5430 Sun Valley Blvd. (Scolari’s), noon to 4 p.m.

Pet parents are asked to bring their dogs properly leashed and their cats in carriers. Schedules for additional clinics over the next year will be listed at www.WashoeCounty.US/animals.

Nevada judgeship still vacant U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said last week that getting judges approved is Senate business, explaining why he would not discuss the subject with reporters.

“We’re not going to talk about that,” Reid said, according to Steve Tetreault of the Stephens Media Washington bureau. “That is something we do among ourselves. That’s something we are trying to work out on our own.”

At issue is Nevada District Judge Elissa Cadish. U.S. Sen. Dean Heller has prevented a hearing or vote on her nomination

by President Obama to a U.S. district judgeship serving Nevada.

Heller has said he is halting the process because he disagrees with her position on the Second Amendment.

Obama nominated her on Feb. 16, 2012. Her nomination died when the last Congress ended, and he renominated her on Jan. 3 this year.

Jack Streeter 1921-2013 Jack Streeter grew up in a different world than we have known. In the 1920s and ’30s, the country was proud that its standing army was small and politicians who talked warlike paid a political price.

Streeter’s generation still ended up in a massive world war in the 1940s and Streeter himself came back from service with the First Infantry in Europe with five Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, the Legion of Merit, and five Purple Hearts. He is believed to have been the most highly decorated Nevada veteran of World War II. What it cost him, only those close to him knew. He said he didn’t like dwelling on it, but avoiding it was difficult with reporters intermittently doing stories on him. Of his five Purple Hearts, he told University of Nevada interviewer Tom King with a laugh, “I was wounded five times, but none was serious.” His interview with King can be read at www.veterans.nv.gov/ under “Latest blog posts” or in King’s book War Stories, which is available from the Sparks, Spanish Springs and South Valleys branches of the county library and is sold at Sundance Books.

In 1944, the Nevada State Journal published a letter Streeter wrote to an instructor at the University of Nevada detailing a recent operation in France that left him injured and hospitalized. That letter can be read on our Newsview blog.

The Reno he came home to was very different from ours, too. He became Washoe County district attorney when Reno was still a small town and politicians did not yet tremble in the presence of the gambling industry. In 1954 Streeter proposed that the state government of Nevada take over legal gambling and operate it as a state monopoly, akin to Monte Carlo. Nevada, he said, should “place the entire management and control of the gambling industry in the hands of the state government.” (He didn’t call it gaming.) Streeter said it would protect legal gambling from federal abolition and would also make the taxpayers partners—“all taxpayers would reap a benefit through the wealth of the state treasury. … If the citizens of Nevada are going to put up with gambling, they might as well enjoy relief from more taxes.”

Streeter launched the public service career of William Raggio by hiring him as a deputy district attorney. Raggio, later a dominant state leader, called him “an important mentor in my career.”

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Reid vs. NV Energy In this session’s Nevada Legislature speech, energy trumps brothels In 1969, two young first-term members of the Nevada Assembly, Harry Reid and Richard Bryan, made a splash and by launched their careers with a spate Dennis Myers of environmental and consumeroriented legislation, including utility measures.

Bryan has long since retired, but Reid is still in public office and still working on utility issues.

Last week he returned to the Nevada Assembly hall—a different hall than the one where he served— and called on state legislators to do as he and Bryan did—crack down on utilities. In 1969 the issue was

“NV Energy has made remarkable progress with its renewable energy portfolio.”

NV Energy prepared statement rates. Today the issue is renewables.

Reid, apparently upset that NV Energy has reduced its use of renewable energy sources by lobbying to the reid speech can be soften the requirements under which read at http://tinyurl. it operates, called for reversing those com/aoozekd loopholes.

“Nevada deserts bake in the afternoon sun,” he told lawmakers in a speech to the two houses. “Winds whip off the snow-capped mountain

peaks for which our state is named.

And below the soils of Northern Nevada, water heated deep in the Earth bubbles to the surface. The renewable energy industry has been a bright spot during dark economic times, helping our state attract new businesses and create thousands of jobs that can never be outsourced. … These successes didn’t happen by accident. They are the result of more than a decade of coordination between businesses, utilities and all levels of government. The linchpin for this progress is a state law that guarantees a market for Nevada’s clean, renewable energy resources. This law, better known as the renewable portfolio standard, requires a minimum percentage of electricity to come from renewable sources. … The legislature most recently updated the law in 2009, requiring Nevada utilities to produce 18 percent of their energy from a combination of renewable resources and energy efficiency measures by 2013. By 2025, a quarter of the energy used in Nevada homes and businesses must come from renewable sources. And although the standard has helped vastly increase the percentage of green energy flowing through Nevada’s grid, there are problems with the statute. Loopholes allow utilities to evade the spirit of the law. In fact, those loopholes are so large Nevada’s major utility could meet the standard without building

a single megawatt of new renewable energy for the rest of the decade.”

Reid may not have used the corporation’s name, but everyone knew what he was talking about.

Reid is the Democratic floor leader in the Senate, and NV Energy execs chose not to rise to the bait, instead seeking to turneth away wrath, issuing a statement full of soft words: “NV Energy has made remarkable progress with its renewable energy portfolio, and our customers are now benefiting from nearly 40 geothermal, solar, wind, biomass, waste heat recovery and small hydro facilities throughout Nevada.

We look forward to continuing to work with Senator Reid, Governor Sandoval, our legislature, and regulators to constantly improve our energy portfolio in the best interests of the state, our customers and our shareholders.”

NV Energy has satisfied its use of renewables by buying energy from renewable sources out of state, undercutting the effort to get more renewable generation of power in Nevada.

Under the softened version of the law, utilities can invest in energy efficiency and thereby get credits toward the renewable requirements, thus undercutting the drive for generating more renewable power in Nevada. Reid supporters claim that times in the energy market have changed and that if NV Energy is permitted to meet renewable standards with energy efficiency, it actually reduces the chance of construction of renewable plants.

And when NV Energy exceeds, with its out-of-state purchases, its use of renewables beyond what is legally required, it can take a credit that can be applied to future years, which is what Reid meant about NV Energy being able to coast through the next decade.

None of this helps with state government’s goal of developing a renewable energy industry.

Targeting coal In addition, by contrast with the period of the 1970s and ’80s, news entities seldom pay attention to these issues, so their urgency flies below the radar.

Following the 1973 energy crisis, and for a couple of decades thereafter, Nevada television stations and newspapers covered public utilities regulation as a beat, which raised public consciousness and helped lead

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“ Loopholes allow utilities to evade the spirit of the law.”

to creation of the post of Nevada consumer advocate, which represents consumers in utility hearings.

By the time renewable energy became mainstream as a utilities issue, the news coverage of utility issues has declined dramatically, and all the later loopholes in the law happened without much publicity on television or in newspapers. With those matters being handled out of the glare of the spotlight, pressure on the players was reduced.

Reid, who has become a dedicated enemy of coal-generated energy, also engaged in a tussle with NV Energy in December, when Los Angeles entered a cooperative renewable energy agreement with the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, whose Nevada reservation has been noted for high joblessness. It was a project Reid supported, and he took the occasion to jump on NV Energy for keeping the Reid Gardner Generating Station going.

“This poor tribe has been beleaguered from its very beginning,” Reid told Las Vegas columnist John L. Smith. “Now attorneys are looking at the litigation aspects of this because the power company has … burned more than 50 million tons of coal in the last 47 years. A lot of that bad stuff winds up on the Indian reservation, which is a couple football fields away.”

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Reid has also promoted the Laughlin solar plant planned by the ENN Energy Group, even though his son Rory Reid is a representative of ENN, a Chinese firm. The potential for conflict of interest has been a topic of conservative commentary on sites like Breitbart.com.

Reid’s speech got far less attention than his remarks to the legislature two years ago, when he proposed that the lawmakers outlaw brothel prostitution, a proposal that got publicity around the world—and was dead on arrival in the Nevada Legislature. Ω

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Giant goldfish swimming in Lake Tahoe’s waters are a concern to scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno. Goldfish, a type of carp, are not native to Lake Tahoe, and biologists speculate that the population grew after people emptied aquariums into the lake. Pet goldfish are the most commonly dumped invasive species, according to a study conducted at the University of California, Davis.

A school of 15 large goldfish was discovered in a “corner” of Lake Tahoe, said UNR environmental scientist Sudeep Chandra. The presence of goldfish, all living in one place, indicated that the fish have been breeding. One goldfish is over a foot long and weighs 4 pounds.

An abundance of goldfish could threaten the native fish species in Lake Tahoe. Goldfish excrement also clouds up clear waters because it contains nutrients that contribute to “algae bloom.”

“It’s unclear whether the giant fish were introduced as fully grown adults, or while they were still small,” said Chandra in a Live Science report. “The goldfish are just one of several species of invasive warm-water fishes in Lake Tahoe. The invasion is resulting in the consumption of native species.”

Sue Williams, who led the UC Davis study, says that unwanted pet fish should be returned to pet shops instead of being flushed down the toilet or dumped in a local body of water. The Department of Fish and Wildlife can also advise pet owners—the Davis study found that “aggression” was the main reason people got rid of pet fish.

Route change Last week, the Bureau of Land Management moved to restrict the right-of-way for Comstock Mining, Inc., permitting the company to use Hauling Route 341. Previously, CMI had been hauling ore on Nevada State Route 342, the main road through Virginia City.

The Comstock Residents Association, which has been organizing against mining on the Comstock, was heartened by the decision, but criticized the BLM for continuing to overlook the environmental impact of mining.

“The BLM, in allowing even a limited right of way over these public lands, an area which indicates for high levels of arsenic and other toxins from historic abuses, enables what we believe to be irresponsible mining operations, in a designated Mercury Superfund Site, that endanger natural springs and waterways crucial to wildlife, the environment and human habitation,” read a statement released by the CRA. “The determination in no way affects the Environmental Assessment, now going forward, and the CRA remains convinced that more concerns will come to light through the process.”

CMI began hauling ore on S.R. 342 last August.

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Gnashing of teeth, howls of wild, and yaps of anticipation echo against the black cliffs and white ice of Tahoe’s Squaw Valley.

A leather-skinned, blue-eyed musher releases the sled’s brake. The dogs leap forward, suddenly silenced by their own pink-tongued panting, noses piercing the crisp air. The skid scrapes through the snow as the musher peers at a fast-approaching curve. Like a puppeteer holding strings with his voice, he need only speak in a near whisper, “Haw.” The canine leaders, 30 feet away, bank left, drawing the line of beast and man behind.

“Their hearing is incredible,” said Brian Maas, musher and owner of Wilderness Adventures Sled Dog Tours. He put me in his sled and took me on that ride. We talked along the way. “This is the oldest mode of transportation that there is. They can trace it back like 3,000 years in Russia.”

Back then, it was transportation. Maas does it for business and pleasure, carrying smiling resort tourists through the scenery by eight-dog power. He hand-builds thin wood sleds and employs five drivers. The business is booked for weeks on end. Families pay up to $300 for a 45-minute ride—testament to the popularity of ancient transport-turned-sport-turnedtourism.

But now, mushing may be facing its greatest challenge yet, and our area with a centurylong history of dog driving is feeling the heat. This weekend, March 2, was supposed to be a revival of our mushing heritage with the first Jack London Commemorative Sled Dog OPINION

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“It’s kind of critical to have snow,” said Preston Springston, of the Sierra Nevada Dog Drivers association.

According to the International Sled Dog Racing Association, it’s a nation-wide trend that some fear could erase our heritage as we watch.

“This country was founded on people who worked with their animals, the gold rush, the dog teams, that type of person that resides in the west coast, families that traveled across the country and grow our own food, that sustainable living and working with animals is part of our life and important to our culture,” says Kathy Miyoshi, past president of the Sierra Nevada Dog Drivers association. She didn’t want to think about the possibility of dog mushing fading into history as a result of climate change and other factors. But when she did begin to think about it, she began to cry.

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nity was behind it with sponsorships from North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, Well Pet dog food, Mark Tanner Construction, Sierra Pet Clinic, Branded Screen Printing and the whole shebang was even moved to higher elevation to Royal Gorge in Soda Springs near Sugar Bowl resort. He built a website, wrote a basic brochure describing the legend of the race in 1915 with black and white pictures to go with it. He has done some interviews about it and lots of articles have been written about it nationwide. He gets excited just thinking about races: “It is fun to watch. The dogs are really excited at the beginning. The fastest teams are doing 20 miles-an-hour and that is doing three-minute miles. That is uphill, downhill, everything.”

But at the very moment he was telling me those words, he was in a race against time and Mother Nature. The very next day, he would have a meeting with organizers about the weather and the race.

“We are in a dry pattern,” he said somberly. “Basically where the ridge is in the eastern Pacific, and any storms we get are going to be small and dry.”

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The next day I called to get an update. He sent me back a terse e-mail: Ky, The race has been cancelled.

With that, his dream fell through thin ice and sunk like a rock.

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THE REIGN OF THE DOG Tahoe and Truckee’s dog driving roots date back more than 100 years. Author and historian Mark McLaughlin told the Gillette News Record that dog sledding and racing began during winter carnivals in the late 1890s. Soon, mushers from Montana to Alaska were going to Truckee for races. Springston dug up a little of the history.

The most famous was in 1915. Bert Cassidy, editor of the Truckee Republican (Sierra Sun), wrote about it in his journal.

“Crowds of people had been arriving in Truckee on each train ... all hotel accommodations had long since been taken ... movie cameramen were legion ... all the bigger papers had sent sports editors.”

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crowds, a musher that was in the lead was held at gunpoint and threatened to be killed if he didn’t let another team pass. Cassidy told the Truckee Constable, and there was talk of a lynching, but since the rumors couldn’t be confirmed, word of the incident was muzzled. It could have made quite a howl since famous writer Jack London was reportedly at the race. But instead, the Truckee race went down in history as the California town where dog mushing had lifted its leg and marked its territory.

Over the next 80 years, the race grew to one of the most popular in the nation with one of the biggest purses climbing as high as $10,000. It drew all kinds of people from some unlikely places. Springston was one of them, a Southern California surfer who got into dog mushing after he adopted a husky from the pound. The hound was so hard to train and kept pulling him every-

HOT DOGS where that he decided to do a little bit of research about this seemingly untamable animal. That’s how he found out what the rescue pup was meant to do: pull. From there he was off and running.

He likes to say it was that dog pulled that him and others into the sport.

“I would go around the neighborhood picking up everyone’s dogs. We had a little beach cart, and we would run around just terrorizing the neighborhood. I was a youngster at that point, about 43. Now I am 64.”

In 1997 he sniffed out the Truckee race that was being put on by the Lions Club, and he brought his beach hounds to the mountains.

Springston never left and became a permanent resident of Truckee. But the races’ years were numbered, and it was that Lions Club race that was keeping mushing alive.

“That is very true,” said Miyoshi. “We went to the race, got fascinated by it and began doing it because of that race. Over the last two or three years, the snow conditions got worse and worse.

It was held at the Truckee airport. They started not having enough snow, and they had to put straw in some of the corners and some spots.

People don’t want to drive all the way here just to run on dirt. If the snow was good, the entries would have stayed up, and the whole cycle wouldn’t have happened the way it did.”

It was a good 100-year run for dog sledding in Truckee that just melted away into the thin mountain air.

“It seemed to me that it was a huge loss to the area because it was part of the history and tradition,” Springston said. “There are old pictures showing a couple of hundreds if not thousands of people.”

This year he tried to revive that glory with the first Jack London Commemorative Sled Dog Derby. His dream was to have multiple distance races with 200 dogs over two days. The commu-

Most of us know the weather is changing, but to understand how quickly it has happened, let’s take a walk through the snowpack data from 100 years ago to the present day. The figures are as clear as snow-capped peaks: The white stuff is getting thinner and thinner.

National Weather Service Meteorologist in Reno, Jim Wallmann looked specifically at the first 10 days of March. Data for Truckee was not consistent, but 200 feet higher in Tahoe City is consistent, and he saw a trend.

“The bigger thing it seems that in the last 10 years, it seemed to be anomalously low compared to the ’80s and ’90s,” he said. “The last 10 years only averaged 24 inches on the ground.”

That is nearly half of the average in the area compared to 100 years ago.

Not only that, the data shows some years with 110 inches of snow and then others with just one inch. Inconsistencies like that happened 100 years ago as well according to the data, but it wasn’t happening as frequently.

“It was much more variable in the ’90s,” Wallmann said.

Truckee isn’t the only place being affected.

“What do you think?” said David Steele, executive director of the International Sled Dog Racing Association. “It has had a terrible effect on us.”

He says of the 52 events that were planned this year nationwide, 25 percent have already cancelled. It’s not normal.

“No, no,” Steele said. “A normal cancellation rate would be about 10 percent, but we have seen as high as 40 percent in the last 10 years.”

Even the world championship in New Hampshire was cancelled last year.

“When I took this position in 1997, we weren’t even thinking about climate change and global warming, and it has been a real difficult thing for us,” he said. “The Truckee race is a good example for your area.”

SHEDDING FOR A N E W C OAT Miyoshi is deeply aware of what is at stake if mushing doesn’t adapt and bring in new blood:

“It’s wonderful. It is my zen. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s quiet. You go out on the trail, and all you can possibly think about is that moment. You aren’t thinking about bills or work. You are working these animals, and you are out in nature, and your mind goes blank, and it is a wonderful way to get out in nature without having to go too far. It is like an instant vacation. That is why I try to run some of the longer courses, 12 or 13 miles. You are taking in fresh oxygen and beautiful scenery and the comfort of working with animals. Like I said, it is my zen.”

She tries not to think about where the sport has been going, and it is not just weather and age that is wearing her thin. It’s regulation and a new breed of people.

“If you can’t have a mini ranch then you can’t have the sport either. The county ordinances and the dog limits and restrictions, licenses and certifications. It is so difficult to own multiple animals. I go through a lot of effort to own my animals, and it is really sad to see it disappearing.”

And just like it wasn’t that long ago that there was more snow, it wasn’t that long ago that Truckee residents were a different breed, too.

“There was more property, space, less regulations,” Miyoshi said. “There was a different type of person living in the mountains. People had more animals. Now the world is kind of PHOTO COURTESY PRESTON SPRINGSTON

There is a bright spot he, says: “Dry land mushing.” That is a less romantic version of the chariot, where dogs pull a wheel cart in the dirt.

But even that effort to adapt the sport is facing challenges. The distances are shorter, the weather —not just heat and humidity—can be a problem.

“In New England they had a dry land event, and then they got snowed on and so they couldn’t do a dry land race. So it works both ways.”

All the mushers I spoke to had characters similar to Steele’s—unyielding determination in the face of climate change that is threatening to forever alter their sport.

“It may not be mushing as we know it, but at least we got to get together and have some fun,” he said. But it’s clear they need more than optimism. The pack of mushers is aging fast.

Steele conducted a study of mushers for the international association in 2007. He surveyed their consumption habits and age and then compared the results with a similar study in 2003. In just a four-year period Mushers had aged an average of a decade from 39 to 49 years old.

From the weather to age, the only constant in this 3,000-year-old sport seems to be change, and it’s beginning to wear thin on the optimistic character of the mushers.

“I hate to say that I can see it disappearing, but I can,” said Miyoshi. “It used to be that you saw kids at the races and parents bringing their kids. Now days, you go to a race, and I am one of the old timers. There aren’t any people like me, young adults.”

moving away from there. I call it a double whammy. We have both those things working against us.”

It seems the sport’s popularity rose just as it began to face serious challenges. All the factors combined, you might think the musher is the endangered breed. But it does have one thing going for it, ‘man’s best friend’ is very popular.

“People are much more aware of the sport 21 YEARS than they were 30 years AGO, PRESTON ago,” Steele says.

SPRINGSTON “People were amazed STA RT E D back then that someone MUSHING hooks up to a dog.

AFTER ADOPTING A People are not flabberH U S K Y. gasted as much anymore. The sport has adapted. It is much more diverse than it used to be. One of the bright spots is the ‘dry land’ events that I mentioned.”

In fact, many urbanites may be incarnations of the musher and not even know it.

“Your dog does not have to be a northern breed. You can get into ‘urban mushing.’ You tie a rope to your belt, tie the rope to the dog and let to dog pull you as you run behind,” Steele says.

Yes, running with your dog even has a name now: “cani-cross.” It’s serious, too. YouTube has dozens of videos of cani-cross competitions around the world. So, mushing has emerged from the den of ancient transportation across the frozen ground and growled back to life on our city streets as a modern, urban, dry-land pastime.

But the traditional sport also has a bright spot that is as clear as yellow snow. It is tourist attractions like Brian Maas runs up at Squaw Valley.

“The dog sled touring industry as a whole has grown tremendously over the past 20-30 years,” Steele says. “That is one area in the sled dog world where people can make a living at it. Those guys are always busy and it is always nice to run into people who have had that experience. So they do a great PR (public relations) job for the sport in general. Kind of the ‘eco-tourism’ thing.”

The tourism aspect is throwing a bone to mushing by bringing in some fresh meat. You can see it at Brian Maas’ operation at Squaw Valley as the cozy families with kids come sliding into camp and then declaring “amazing” and saying they want to drive dogs. Not far away from the scene is Maas’ own son. He likes to play with a Tonka Truck in the snow like a sandbox. He’s just 11, and three years ago Brian took him to a race. There were no other children.

“So I raced against the adults,” said Elias Maas. “I beat them all.” He pauses. “By like 30 minutes.”

He has his dad’s eyes, stoic face and optimism about the future of mushing. He says he will always be a musher. This young pup has a lot of dog years left to live. With his help, man’s best friend might also retain a little of its once wild heritage. If our hearing is keen enough, we may hear that ancestral cry like Jack London did.

“And when on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him,” Jack London wrote in Call of the Wild.

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In April, at the Laxalt Auditorium, TWNN presents The Giver, based on the Newbery Medal-winning young adult novel about a young boy living in a utopian society. Auditions for this show, for ages 7+, take place Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the TheatreWorks office in Sparks. Call 2406970 for details.

In May comes Cinders, an original piece by Sandra Neace, whose The Medea Project she recently directed herself at Brüka Theatre and took to New York’s International Fringe Festival.

Cinders is a modern-day retelling of Cinderella about a bullied, overweight girl.

For Artown, TWNN offers up Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, complete with sound effects and big props. You’ll be able to catch this one at Laxalt, as well as a few other locations around town. See the website for details.

Tickets and information: TWNN.org.

Kinda sketchy: Goodluck Macbeth

After a couple of seasons of sticking to the tried and true, this spring the local theater troupes are getting weird

Do you smell that?

It may be only February, but spring is in the air, and wafting on its breezes is the fragrance of rebirth, the churning scent of upheaval. For the next several months, local theater companies are offering up edgy, contemporary, avantgarde, and even experimental works indicative of a theater scene ready to shed its skin and start fresh.

A flying leap: Nevada Repertory Company

No stranger to experimentation, the University of Nevada, Reno’s Nevada Repertory Company kicks off its spring season on March 1 with Susan Pfeffer’s I Am the Pilot in Command. Pfeffer, who will also direct, will guide students through an improvisational process to arrive collaboratively at what will become the final piece, a combination of dance and theater that explores the many feelings of flight.

In mid-April, Nevada Rep presents a comedic theater piece with contemporary themes, The Hot I Baltimore by Lanford Wilson. Set at the run-down Hotel Baltimore, with the burnedout “e” on its neon sign, the play shows how a cast of bizarre characters that call the hotel their home cope with the prospect of its being condemned. Nevada Rep has received a grant

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from the city of Reno for set design, and will use it to build an extraordinary, art deco hotel set in its proscenium theater.

UNR will also present a student dance concert in March, and the Spring Dance Festival featuring guest artists Jazz Dance Chicago in early May Tickets and information: UNR.edu/nevadarep.

Fringe and farce: Reno Little Theater Reno Little Theater’s next show is the first of RLT’s new three-show Fringe Series, which board member and publicity chair Nancy Podewils explains will feature “original and edgier plays” and local playwrights, in an effort to entice a slightly younger, newer audience.

First up is Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, about three people trapped in a windowless living room in hell who must work out how they’re going to live together for eternity. Next, in March, comes The Birdmen, an original play by local actor/artist Wolf Price, a quirky piece about people surviving on an island in middle of Bermuda Triangle by telling each other stories.

Finally, in May, comes a trilogy, Performance Anxiety, a collection of a three vignettes that depict life in The Theater.

In April, RLT presents what one New York Times critic called “the funniest show written in

my lifetime,” Noises Off. This behind-the-scenes, play-within-a-play farce about the pratfalls of a theater company is directed by Doug Mischler.

On May 31, RLT opens Moliere’s French farce, Tartuffe, a mistaken-identity tale about an imposter who worms his way into a family’s good graces.

RLT will present two shows for Artown. The first, in early July, is a children’s play, Still Life for Iris, a fantastical adventure about a young girl searching for home. In mid-July comes Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a classic middleAmerican small town story, which director Kira Temple will give a slightly modern set and presentation.

Tickets and information: RenoLittle Theater.org.

The joy of self-awareness: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada As live theater itself comes under the microscope this spring, TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada throws its hat in the ring with Circle Mirror Transformations at Goodluck Macbeth’s Midtown theater space. It’s the story of an eclectic band of drama class students who, in the manner of Waiting for Guffman, lovably take themselves, and their “craft,” way, way too seriously.

Following TWNN’s Circle Mirror Transformations, GLM opens its theater season on March 14 with the musical The Last Five Years, the story of a relationship as told by the man (chronologically) and the woman (in reverse) involved.

In late April comes Ibsen’s Ghost, a heavy, dark, period drama about a woman who’s devoted her life to a dying husband, only to learn that his philandering ways have created a tangle of family.

Tintypes runs from late June through July.

This turn-of-the-century musical revue is set during the heyday of America’s industrialization. In a series of character sketches told exclusively through music, the show’s Americana pieces paint an interesting portrait of American life.

GLM stays sketchy this spring with several community events, including Tuesday’s Artemisia Movie House; Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a life-drawing event; and twice-a-month gatherings of local improv group The Jesters League. See GLM’s calendar for details. GLM’s children’s theater program, the Spotlight Academy for Young Actors, offers its spring musical showcase the first weekend of March.

Tickets and information: GoodLuckMacbeth.org.

Doubt, death and desertion: Brüka Theatre Sandra Neace is busy. Fresh off The Medea Project, her Cinders takes the TWNN stage, and in March, she’s directing John Patrick Shanley’s Tony and Pulitzer-winning Doubt, a Parable for Brüka. This provocative drama set in a 1960s Catholic church explores the mysterious relationship between a priest and a young boy.

Also in mid-March, Brüka Theatre for Children presents Snow White to area schools and free to the public at McKinley Arts Center.

Six Women With Brain Death, or Expiring Minds Want to Know, running April through May, is a sketch musical comedy with a female, satirical take on pop culture. Singer Cami Thompson leads the cast, and will lead a vocal workshop as part of Brüka’s Artist in the House series.

In its first collaboration with Sierra Nevada Ballet, on March 24, Brüka debuts an original dance/ theater piece by Ananda Bena Weber, who will also conduct an Artist in the House master workshop.

Go west: Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company

Continuing its “20Twenty Vision” season to celebrate its 20th year, Brüka revisits Shirley Valentine, a one-woman show starring Producing Director Mary Bennett about a woman so bored with her life she talks to the walls—until she gets a chance to take a trip and discover herself in the process.

For Artown comes Art, a Tony Award-winner written by Yasmina Reza and directed by Tony DeGeiso; it’s a clever, comedic story about three men arguing over the value of a painting.

Brüka’s post-show, late-night TV show series returns at end of March with The Honeymooners and Three’s Company. Also returning is the successful kids’ workshop series, in which kids ages 8-18 will adapt The Pied Piper, under the tutelage of Brüka artists, and perform it live. And for kids under 18 interested in full apprenticeships or scholarships, both are available. Sign up or learn more on Brüka’s website.

Tickets and information: Bruka.org.

WNMTC presents Lionel Bart’s Tony Award-winning Oliver! in May at the Carson City Community Center. This musical retelling of Charles Dickens’ book follows a boy’s escape from a London orphanage and search for adventure and a loving home. The show is complete with dance numbers and such memorable tunes as “Pick-apocket,” “Consider Yourself,” and “As Long As He Needs Me,” performed by a 50-member cast and a professional orchestra.

Tickets and information: WNMTC.com.

Cheeky Fun: Brewery Arts Center Louise Maske’s underwear keeps falling down in public and her husband, Theo, is mortified. That’s the premise behind Steve Martin’s Off-Broadway farce, The Underpants, presented by Proscenium Players, Inc. in late March in the BAC’s Macy Harris Jesse Theater.

From underpants to Pooh—sorry, couldn’t resist—Wild Horse Children’s Theater Company takes us into The Hundred-Acre Wood for some adventures in Winnie the Pooh, Jr. at BAC’s performance hall in April.

BAC’s Diving Into the Arts program returns this summer. This performing and visual arts camp for youth will involve participants in a nine-week series of activities that culminate in a musical to be performed in August.

Tickets and Information: BreweryArts.org Ω

Wizarding world: TMCC Performing Arts Truckee Meadows Community College rocks it in April with The Who’s Tommy, a tragic rock opera about a boy left catatonic from the shock of his father’s murder of his mother.

Narrated through such Who classics as “Pinball Wizard, “Tommy, Can You Hear Me?” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” the story follows Tommy into adulthood as he becomes a pinball champion and international star.

TMCC is exploring the world of video backgrounds and light projections for this one.

Also on the TMCC performing arts schedule are two band concerts at Reno High on March 4 and May 7, and a Glee-style choir concert on May 8.

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Cold shoulders The Mexican takes on legal immigration and macho Mexican courtship rituals Dear Mexican: You mentioned in the past that your dad is against illegal immigration, but that’s a voice you never hear. Why aren’t the legal immigrants vocally outraged about the illegals who drive down wages, drive up housing prices, use government services, give all immigrants a bad name, and are on the verge of getting amnesty for cutting in line? The illegal by Gustavo Arellano immigrant has very little effect on my life, but seems to have a huge gustavoa@ impact on the legal immigrant. newsreview.com Dear Gabacho: You don’t hear the voices of legal immigrants in the illegal-immigration debate?

Republicans trot those tokens out all the time—look at Marco Rubio.

Plus? I can disprove every single point of yours—just buy my book for details! Finally? You say illegals have “very little effect” on your life, yet you took the time to rant, and used legal immigrants as your cover to do so. That’s like

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saying you’re concerned for the Mexican janitor when complaining to management about how smelly your coworker’s caca stinks.

Mexico would not see a problem with sleeping around, and that it is romantic to continue to court and wait for a young woman even

I’m an American girl who works at a diner with a lot of very attractive young Mexican men. Most are from the countryside, and only two claim to have been to a large city before moving here. I was constantly cat-called, whistled and winked at by everyone—including the boy whose attention I’ve been trying to get—until one of our cooks told everyone to stay off and that “Ella es mi novia.” He showers me with unwanted gifts and continuously tries to walk me home from work even though he lives in the other direction. I’ve been firm but he still won’t back down. He tells me that he’s the only man from Mexico that I’ll meet that won’t ever cheat on me or try to control me, that any other man from

You say illegals have “very little effect” on your life, yet you took the time to rant, and used legal immigrants as your cover to do so. if she says no, so I should stop trying to stop him. He also sees no problem with our 11-year age gap.

My Spanish is quite good but my understanding of the culture is

minimal at best. I understand that the culture is still very macho, especially in the countryside, so I’ve tried to learn more about it.

Everything I look up or hear is about how all Mexican men cheat even though I know this is not true. Could you please explain this gap between our cultures? Is it truly acceptable to cheat on one’s special other? Why is it romantic to drive a woman crazy?

Dear Gabacha: What you’re describing is the culture of pretender, the Mexican courtship ritual where the man is supposed to suffer at the cold shoulder (connected to the heaving bosoms) of his beloved, as best exemplified in the song “Tu Enamorado” or the Maria Félix-Pedro Armendariz classic Enamorada. Be glad he hasn’t brought back another Mexican courtship ritual—kidnapping. Ω

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“Part of the appeal is just creating with a group of people,” says Empire Comedy founder Michael Lewis.

Empire Comedy Empire Comedy is a company that practices long-form improvisational comedy—inventing and by performing new theatrical performances Brad Bynum on the fly in real time every week. The company is celebrating its five-year anniverbradb@ news review.c om sary with a series of events Feb. 28 through March 2. Founder Michael Lewis, a veteran of the Los Angeles improv scene, started the company to foster an improv scene here in Reno. In addition to presenting regular public performances, Lewis also teaches improv classes—for beginners and more For more advanced students. It’s part of his mission information, visit to introduce this young art form to Northern empireimprov.com.

Nevadans, and to build a community for it here in Reno.

“I think that the most surprising thing has been the sheer number of students that have come through—strong students that have kept at it, even after moving on to other cities,” says Lewis.

He estimates that approximately 200 students have taken at least one class from him. Some of those students developed into experienced performers who have continued to pursue improv and related art forms in

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other cities. He mentions Tim Dufrisne, who has performed and studied improv in Chicago and New York; Nick Delehanty, stage performer in Chicago; and Cassady O’Neal, an improviser, comedian and filmmaker who worked in Los Angeles and now New York. Dufrisne and O’Neal will both be back in Reno to help celebrate the five-year anniversary—five years since the company’s first performance, in which Dufrisne was a performer.

“It’s exciting to have him back since he was here at the beginning,” says Lewis.

Empire has never had a theater of its own, so it has performed at a number of different venues over the years—Studio on 4th, West Street Market, Rainshadow Community Charter High School and Good Luck Macbeth Theater. The anniversary celebrations will be held at Circle of Life Hospice Foundation Theater, the backof-a-thrift-store theater space that hosted the recent theatrical run of 6:01 a.m.: A Working Class Opera.

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taught by Lewis focused on the basics of improv. The class will run for an hour and a half and will be followed, at 9 p.m., by an improv jam—giving anyone the chance to perform improv before a live audience.

Lewis says it’s a good opportunity for beginners who’ve never performed in front of a live audience before as well as a good exercise for season improvisers because working with newbies helps keep performers on their toes.

On March 1 at 8 p.m., Empire Comedy will present an improv show featuring the house team, Like a Banshee—Lewis, longtime Empire performer Ben Craig and David Gromley—as well as appearances by guest performers like Dufrisne and Alex Marino, a former student of Lewis’ who went on to found the Magnet Theater in

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by Empire’s elite student squad, The George Collection.

Finally, on March 2 at 3 p.m., Marino will lead a workshop on improv techniques.

“A huge part of the appeal is just creating with a group of people,” says Lewis.

He says improv is a process of developing trust in other performers. And whereas traditional theater follows a strict sequence of writing, rehearsing and then performing—improv is all three at once. There are obvious analogies with music—especially styles of music, like jazz and bluegrass, where improvisation is an integral part—but Lewis also draws a correlation with athletics.

“You don’t know exactly what’s going to happen in a basketball game, but you still do drills,” he says.

It’s impossible to predict exactly what will happen in any given game, but the athletes need to be ready to perform, react, follow the rules, and play as a team. Ω

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from milk produced on a specific farm and are often made in creameries located on the farm, but always at least quite nearby, since fresh milk is perishable.

Farmstead cheeses are thus made in relatively small batches and many steps are usually done by hand, such as turning the cheese, wiping the rinds, cutting, and packaging. Because farmstead cheeses are made in a specific place, they tend to develop unique flavor profiles based on the feed the animals receive, the climate in which they’re made, and the natural microbes in the air where they are aged.

Some “artisan” or “artisanal” cheeses are also farmstead cheeses, although some artisanal cheeses are made by cheese makers who buy milk from a few farms.

Some larger creameries will make farmstead cheeses and other artisanal cheeses made with milk from several farms, using the same care and techniques for both.

Conrow had me taste four cheeses. Fleur Verte, a goat cheese—becoming very popular for chefs in upscale restaurants—had flavors of tarragon peppercorn, making it very creamy and slightly tart, with a subtle, bold finish.

Quadrello di Bufala, from Italy, is a new buffalo-milk version of the beloved square cheese from Lombardy, high in fat content and protein—creamy and delicious.

From Point Reyes in northern California comes a Basque cheese, Baserri, from sheep’s milk. It was salty and dry. I could see it with a cold beer.

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By thirds, their cheeses come from the West Coast, mid-American and Europe. They offer fresh-made sandwiches ($8), have some handpicked wines and soft drinks. It’s family friendly and a true adventure for your palate. I grew up in the big city with neighborhoods that were your world, little family-run businesses that provided all our necessities. Wedge gives me that feel in Midtown—a good feeling. Ω PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG

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This is a not only a place of artisan cheeses, but also some very select meats and pâtés, though cheese is the focus. At any time, they will offer 100 varieties with wedges ranging from $8 to $45. A visit to their shop is a learning experience about what this food can bring to your life in a tasty, fun way. Every Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., they have a sampling, including some select wines to marry with the fromage. Wine and cheese are good friends and never happier when they are together.

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Snitch Man, Dwayne Johnson has had so much ink done, yet he doesn’t show off his tattoos in his latest, Snitch. Not one tattoo shot!

That’s because Dwayne wants to be taken seriously as an actor, and his performance in this film certainly shows he’s capable of more than making his pecs dance or firing guns while his tattoos sexily vibrate. Heck, it looks by like he’s going to leave the sexy tattoo vibraBob Grimm tions for the other 172 films he seems to be starring in within the upcoming year. bgrimm@ newsreview.c om Snitch casts Johnson as John Matthews, an incomplete but well meaning cinema father.

He provides for the family he has living in his lush house thanks to a semi-lucrative trucking company. As for his ex-wife and son from the former marriage, he gives them enough so they can get by, and has little to do with the upbringing of son Jason (Rafi Gavron).

Snitch isn’t great, but it’s a serviceably good action film featuring good lead performances and a decent supporting cast. Michael Kenneth Williams (Boardwalk Empire) offers a scary presence as Malik, a drug dealer unknowingly participating in John’s scheme.

Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) garners plenty of sympathy as an ex-con employee of John’s who can’t resist a chance to make a lot of money for his struggling family. And Barry Pepper is his reliable self as a drug enforcement agent with extraordinary facial hair.

Susan Sarandon is actually the film’s weak link as the typical government type with political aspirations who will do anything to get some votes. It’s a “nothing but a paycheck” gig for someone capable of so much better.

She feels very out of place.

If there is a problem in watching a film like this, it’s that you know things are all going to come out OK in the end. There’s no real sense of tension when it comes to John driving a big truck on the freeway and being shot at by drug dealers while trying to carry on a phone conversation.

And you just know the ending is going to involve tears and one last prison visit.

Still, I must admit to enjoying the film on certain levels.

The scene where John is shot at while driving that truck is well staged, even if it is predictable.

The movie claims to be based on a true story, so that means the real life chase probably involved a cruiser bicycle and a kid with a slingshot. Hollywood tends to embellish.

Do I think Dwayne Johnson will ever take a big grinned walk towards a podium to pick up an Oscar? Hell no. Do I think he will be able to handle future roles in thrillers that require some acting muscle rather than some HGH enhanced, rippling tattoo muscle? Certainly. His work here shows that he is capable of taking things to the next level.

Now sit back and await the arrival of Johnson in Fast & Furious 6, Pain & Gain, Empire State and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, his other 2013 offerings. Or check him out on the TV as The Rock in a recent visit to his old haunts at WWE wrestling. This man wants to be everything at once. Ω

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So, of course, Jason has gone a little bad.

He likes to smoke a little pot and take Ecstasy.

His like for Ecstasy leads to a bunch of it being Fed-Exed to him by a drug dealer friend, and this is where the big trouble starts. Jason gets pinched, John gets pissed, and a long jail term for the young dummy seems in order.

That is, until John takes matters into his own hands, and offers to help the federal government nab drug dealers in exchange for leniency towards his son. This leads to a lot of scenes with Johnson doing a good job of looking concerned and Gavron doing a bang-up job looking freaked out. I found myself caring for their characters fairly early on in the film’s running time, and that got me invested in the picture to some degree.

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will probably win an Oscar for her work as Fantine, singing her big number in one take and summoning honest, heart-wrenching tears.

Russell Crowe, as Valjean’s lawman nemesis Javert, doesn’t have half of Jackman’s voice, but there’s something about his interpretation that’s appropriate and amplifies the character’s loneliness. Every number is treated with a majestic grace that makes this one of the greatest movie musicals I’ve ever seen.

Man, oh man, this is a tough one to watch. From Michael Haneke, the director of the brutal Funny Games—both the foreign and the American versions—we get a film about old age so honest, it guts you. Many of us know a couple like Georges and Anne (JeanLouis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva). Seeing a couple like this dealing with terrible illness is heartbreaking, and Haneke takes a terribly honest approach to impending death. Riva’s Oscar nominated performance is one of those pieces of work you will never forget. It tattoos onto your brain. Rest assured, if you choose to see this, it’s going to knock you on your ass.

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A Good Day to Die Hard

The Die Hard franchise has been one of the more reliable action movie franchises in cinematic history—until now.

Bruce Willis looks tired, beaten down and embarrassed in this useless installment of the adventures of John McClane. The action takes him to Russia this time, which is a mistake.

While there, he helps his son with some espionage crap, another storytelling mistake. He goes up against villains who do not distinguish themselves at all, and this would be the film’s biggest mistake. Die Hard needs a big villain.

All of the prior installments had good villains, and that includes naked William Sadler in Die Hard 2. I think McClane has got some good stuff left in the tank, but enough with this garbage involving his kids. And stay the heck out of Russia; that place has lost all of its cinematic bad guy appeal. Little in this movie makes sense and it just doesn’t belong in a category with the first four chapters. Reboot, forget this thing, and start fresh the next time out, sort of like how Rocky Balboa forgot the previous two chapters and restored the Italian Stallion’s dignity.

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This seriously had the makings of the worst, dumbest movie ever made.

Hansel and Gretel, the famed gingerbread house eaters, survive their ordeal to become world-class witch hunters. The result is bad, but it’s one of those so-bad-it’s-almost-good endeavors. Jeremy Renner somehow got talked into this thing, and he gives it his best shot, as does Gemma Arterton as his sister, Gretel.

Famke Janssen is on hand as a mean witch who plans to take the blood of a bunch of children and do something or other with it. I wasn’t really following, or caring. The 3-D is bad, so go ahead and opt for 2-D. It’s got Peter “Where is Pancakes House?” Stormare in it too, which is usually the mark of a bad film unless it’s Fargo.

Lots of blood and curse words get this one an R-rating. Director Tommy Wirkola seems as if he’s playing it for camp at times, and that would’ve been the better move for the whole film. It really slows down when it takes itself too seriously.

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Director Kathryn Bigelow getting snubbed by Oscar for this taut, scary, intelligent movie about the war on terror and hunt for Bin Laden is a travesty. Well, it’s a travesty when it comes to movies and stuff, not so much in the grand scheme of things. Still, Bigelow deserves praise for putting together a movie that is both exciting political thriller and terrific action movie. Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain is deserving of the accolades as Maya, a composite character of CIA agents who managed to find Bin Laden in Pakistan and end his life. The film contains scenes of torture, but it doesn’t feel “pro-torture” by any means. It’s a great movie that will only get greater with time, and yet another reason to call Bigelow one of the best in the business.

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Bradley Cooper is on fire as Pat, a troubled man recently out of a mental institution and obsessed with his ex-wife. He’s so obsessed hat he can’t see the value in Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a recently widowed neighbor trying to befriend him. Directed by David O. Russell, the movie is a funny, slick treatment of people with real problems that works because Russell and his performers find the right balance. Robert De Niro does his best work in years as Pat’s obsessive father, and Chris Tucker gets big laughs as Pat’s former mental institution buddy. Cooper and Lawrence make for one of the year’s most interesting screen couples. They are certainly unique. Russell is establishing himself as one of the industry’s most reliable and innovative directors.

Cashing in on her Oscar-nominated turn in Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy gets a headlining role alongside Jason Bateman in Identity Thief. While both performers are talented and make the best of the crap heap of a script they are handed, it’s not enough to make this anything more than a desperate misfire. From the director of Horrible Bosses, this is just another riff on Planes, Trains & Automobiles minus much of the fun. Bateman plays a sorry sap who has his identity stolen by a free shopping weirdo (McCarthy). He gets into some legal troubles, and vows to capture the thief and bring her back to his hometown.

So it’s another odd couple road movie, and pretty exploitive when it comes to McCarthy.

She’s a talented woman, and she deserves much better than this.

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The first half of director Steven Soderbergh’s alleged feature film’s swan song is excellent, while the second half is only passably good. Jude Law stars as a doctor treating a depressed patient (Rooney Mara) who is given an experimental drug with some nasty results. The film is at once a mystery and an indictment of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry, and it hums along nicely for a good chunk of the running time. Then, it suddenly becomes a mediocre Brian De Palma movie as the mysteries are solved, and it gets a little hokey. Good things happen before it unravels, with Mara doing some nice work alongside Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Soderbergh says this is it for him. Hopefully, he just takes a couple of years off and finds himself back behind the camera someday. This movie is OK, but I would like to see him go out on a better note.

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This genuinely chilling haunted fairytale comes from producer Guillermo del Toro and writer/director Andrés Muschietti, and is based on Mushcietti’s original short film. Two little girls are abandoned by their demented father in the forest. They are discovered years later and adopted by their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend (Jessica Chastain). The little girls have taken on the characteristics of feral beasts and are convinced they are being watched over by a force they call “Mama.” As it turns out, Mama is very real, and a decent CGI creation that is both scary and just the right touch of funny.

The film works well not just because Muschietti knows how to construct a good scare, but also because he does a great job getting you to care for the little girls and the Chastain character.

Chastain, looking rather gothic in this one, delivers another good performance, even though she isn’t very convincing as a bass player in a punk band. I was scared throughout much of this movie.

This is a grand, beautifully shot adaptation of the legendary musical, directed

by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman in the heavy-lifting role of persecuted bread thief Jean Valjean. Set in 19th century France, the musical calls for nearly every word to be sung, and it’s a major undertaking. Hooper had his cast sing live on the set rather than prerecording in a sound booth, and this results in a moving musical experience. Jackman has a spectacular voice, and you get at true sense that he and his costars are acting these songs, rather than lip-synching. Anne Hathaway

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Fear and lounging Bat Country Folk punk, like many genres, has a reputation of being played out.

It’s easily pigeonholed into two by Fil Corbitt main categories: political “folk the system” punk songs ferociously spat over grimy acoustic guitar strings, or cutesy “remember that year after high school?” punk songs gently spat over those same acoustic guitar strings (maybe with a ukelele for good measure).

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Jace Godbey’s guitar leads echo the vocal melodies.

Bat Country performs with spoonboy and larry Cooper at the holland Project, 140 Vesta st., on March 11 at 7:30 p.m. $5.

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Reno’s newest folk punk band, Bat Country, fortunately fits into neither.

In a dark living room a few blocks east of the University of Nevada, Reno, four of the five members lounge on armchairs and footstools, arranged haphazardly around a two-piece drum set.

“Let’s play that one … uh, ‘Role Models’?” says Shane Heimerdinger, his face lit by a few strips of sunlight cutting through the blinds. “And I want you to play harder there. Harder and faster.”

The drummer, introduced only as Cactus Head, nods in agreement and the band jumps into an upbeat tune.

Heimerdinger, the band’s singer and rhythm guitarist, launches into a fast, almost rapped verse.

Jared George follows, running his fingers up and down the fret board of his acoustic bass guitar at a similar rate.

Heimerdinger’s lyrics seem to shift seamlessly between political, satirical and introspective, calling people out for blind consumerism, just as often as calling himself out for laziness.

(He later sings, “My hands smell like drugs, probably because all the drugs I’ve been doing.”)

There is a definite grunge influence here. Not only the lyrical content, but

in the way they’re delivered. Most of the words are sort of nasally stretched, with just a touch of throat gravel—a practice easily done wrong, but executed well in this case.

Jace Godbey’s lead guitar occasionally echoes the vocal melodies. He picks away at an electric hollow body turned down to 1, where it sits just below the acoustic instruments.

Whereas Heimerdinger’s left hand lives near the head stock, playing mostly open chords, Godbey’s hand hovers in the middle strings of the fifth fret, gliding through scales and melodies not dissimilar to George’s walking bass. He gives the sound a polished dynamic.

Patrick Kelly is the last member— he couldn’t make it to this practice— and plays banjo and mandolin.

The band always plays (mostly) acoustic, but not necessarily out of choice.

“We have a lot of serious equipment barriers,” says Heimerdinger, citing two broken guitars and the lack of an electric bass. He says it’s too difficult to fix electric instruments.

“Acoustic’s just easier.”

The name Bat Country, lifted from a line in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, seems to be a fitting reference.

The band has a bit of a Hunter S. Thompson feel—a sort of hectic, but oddly collected vibe.

“Sure, Hunter S. Thompson is a big influence,” says Heimerdinger, “Him and Vonnegut and Hemingway.”

Both a touch of Vonnegut’s satirical bite and a dash of Hemingway’s blunt cynicism shine through.

The music itself has a healthy mix of Nirvana and Andrew Jackson Jihad, though they list Portland-based band The Taxpayers as their number one influence—a similar take on folk punk, though fully electric with a four-piece drum set.

Powering through their practice set, George chimes in with a suggestion.

“Let’s play ‘Dino Song.’” He turns to me, “This is our joke song.”

Godbey adds, “We have a few of those.”

“Yeah,” Heimerdinger agrees, “This one’s about the zombie crawl.”

Each song has a jam feel, but most last less than a couple minutes—a practice most likely developed in their numerous previous punk bands.

They’re a newer band, they say, but it’s hard to mark an exact start due to a long process of formation. They seem to be settling in just fine. They can’t stop here. This is Bat Country. Ω

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SATURDAY 3/2

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SUNDAY 3/3

1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover

3RD STREET

Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover

Rumble, 9:30pm, no cover

THE ALLEY

Weston Buck, Bluff Caller, Love Like Wes, Six Mile Station, 8pm, free w/ticket

DJ Abilities, Sadistik, Concept, Maulskull, Track Fighter, Nuke Vegas, Sil Shoda, The Halve Two, Elsewhere, 7:30pm, $10, $12 The Reagan Years, 7:30pm, $5

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

BAR-M-BAR

Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover

CARGO

Igor & Red Elvises, Aversion Therapy, $8, $10

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

Reverend Horton Heat, Guttermouth, Los Pistoleros, 7:30pm, W, $20, $22 Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover

Pennywise

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

Radar Bros., 9pm, no cover

COMMA COFFEE

Mark Diorio, 11:15am, no cover

Open Mic Night, 7:30pm, no cover

Community Drum Circle, 5:30pm, no cover

312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/4-3/6

’90s Night, 10pm, no cover

EDM Thursday, 10pm, no cover

Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover

CORKSCROO BAR AND GRILL

Comedy

Open Mic and Art Show, 8:15pm, M, no cover

10 E. Ninth St., (775) 284-7270

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

Todd Wees and Aaron Orepeza, 7pm, no cover

A Thousand Years At Sea, 7pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

FAT CAT BAR & GRILL

Karaoke Night, 10pm, no cover

235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255 599 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City; (530) 583-3355

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 9pm, W, no cover

Downtime, 9:30pm, no cover

Soultorn, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, Tu, no cover Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, W, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Reggae Night w/DJ Ground$core!, 9pm, M, Open Mic w/Lucas Arizu, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Rondell Sheridan, Todd Sawyer, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Scott Kennedy, Carlie & Doni, W, 9pm, $25

OBN IIIs, Fibula and the Tibia, Pelvis Wrestlies, 8pm, Tu, $5

Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Hynopt!c with Dan Kimm, F, 7pm, $13, $16; Justin Rupple, F, 9:30pm; 7pm, 9:30pm, Sa, $13, $16

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover

170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Open mic, 7pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300 1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

THE HOLLAND PROJECT

Spoken Views Open Mic, 7:30pm, $5, free for performers

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Ceremony, Spitting Image, Creative Adult, Countress, 7:30pm, $7, $10

JAVA JUNGLE

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Rodney Laney, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; TBA, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95

Java Jungle Sunday Music Showcase, 7pm, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

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THURSDAY 2/28 JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

Vampirates, A Thousand Shall Fall, 9pm, $TBA

KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE

1) Pennywise, Lagwagon, 7:30pm, $21-$40 2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648 1) Main Stage 2) Top Shelf Lounge

FRIDAY 3/1

SATURDAY 3/2

Live Jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

1) Pushing Back, Stereo Killers, Silent Theory, Truckee River Band, 7:30pm, $6 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500

Feb. 28, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353

PIZZA BARON

Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Roger Scime, 8pm, no cover

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481 3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

RISE NIGHTCLUB

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

Fusion Fridays w/DJs Kentot, Fredy G, 10pm, $10; free for women until midnight

Rise Culture Night, 10pm, $10 Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Wicked Hicks, 9:30pm, no cover

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993

Open Mic Night/College Night, 7pm Tu, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7:30pm, W, no cover

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911

Soul Lobotomy, Scattered, Seven Churches, 9pm, $TBA

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

STREGA BAR

1) Hollywood Undead, Dance Gavin Dance, All Hail the Yeti, 8pm, M, $25-$50, Black Veil Brides, William Control, 7:30pm, Tu, $20-$40

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

RYAN’S SALOON

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

March 6, 7:30 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

1) 10 Years, Young Guns, Lost Element, The Scarecrow Project, 6:30pm, $15$30 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

Hip Hop and R&B Night, 10pm, $5; no cover charge for women before midnight

924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

Reverend Horton Heat

Keith Alan Hartranft, 1pm, no cover

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

RUBEN’S CANTINA

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/4-3/6

Open mic, 9pm M, no cover

KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL

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SUNDAY 3/3

Hollywood Trashed, Sweet 70, 9:30pm, no cover

Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Merkin, 9pm, no cover

Female Songwriter Showcase w/Mel Wade, Kung Fu Sophie, others,8pm, $5

Interzone w/DJs Endif, TV1, Hyperkarma, and Christophe, 9pm, $3

Dark Tuesdays, 7pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

TAKODA COFFEEHOUSE 148 Vassar St., (775) 410-4364

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

Civil Perish, Josh Wiseman, 7pm, no cover

3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

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THURSDAY 2/28

FRIDAY 3/1

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2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover

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2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Delhi 2 Dublin, 10pm, no cover

1) Tainted Love, 9pm, $25

1) Magique, 8pm, $21.95+ 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Magique, 7pm, 9:30pm, $21.95+ 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

SATURDAY 3/2

SUNDAY 3/3

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/4-3/6

CARSON VALLEY INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, no cover

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

1) Magique, 7pm, $21.95+ 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge

1) moe., Orgone, 8pm, Tu, W, $30-$50 1) Magique, 7pm, $21.95+ 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 3) DJ Rick Gee’s Back in the Day Birthday Bash, 5pm, $20, $25

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion

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HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) Peek Nightclub

1) G. Love & Special Sauce, John Fullbright, 7pm, $32.45

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

2) Just Us, 7pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko 4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s

1) Reckless Kelly, 9pm, $10 2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Namolokama, 6pm, no cover

1) Magique, 8pm, Tu, 7pm W, $21.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Steele Breeze, 10pm, W, no cover 4) Live jazz, 4:30pm, W, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Namolokama, 6pm, no cover

5) Namolokama, 6pm, no cover

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom

Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover

3) Elan Trotman, 6pm, W, no cover

Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, 829-8886: J.P. and Super Fun Entertainment, Th, 8pm, no cover

3) Boogie Nights at Blu, 8pm, $5-$10, free w/’70s or ’80s attire

3) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

1) The Expendables, 9pm, W, $18, $20 2) Local guest DJs, 10pm, W, no cover

2) Soul Experience, 9pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

2) Soul Experience, 9pm, no cover 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

1) Aaron Lewis, 8pm, $49.50-$69.50 4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

3) Dance party w/DJ Teddy P, 9pm, no cover 4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

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Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

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MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) STS9, Tycho, 9pm, $25, $30 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 2) DJ David Aaron, 10pm, $TBA 4) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Convention Center 6) Outdoor Event Center

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2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover

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2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Sin Biggest Little Locals Night, 4pm, M, Step This Way, 8pm, W, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 5pm M, Tu, W, no cover

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The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., March 14, is Thurs., March 7.

Events 2012 ADDY AWARDS: The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, recognizing and rewarding creative excellence in the art of advertising.

Conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the local ADDY Awards is the first of a threetiered national competition. Entrants are vying for recognition as the very best in their markets. Local winners then compete against other winners within their regions in one of 14 District competitions. District winners are then forwarded to the National ADDY Awards competition. F, 3/1, 5:30-9:30pm. $55 in advance; $65 at the door; $25 for students. Edge at The Peppermill, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 689-7444, http://aafreno.com/2012-addy-awards.

TOP 10 NUTRITION AND EXERCISE TIPS: Registered dietitian Jill Whisler and exercise physiologist Wendy Buchanan explain the top 10 nutrition and exercise tips for peak performance and health. Tu, 3/5, 5:30-7pm. $5 donation suggested.

Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences at Sierra Nevada College, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560, http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar.

All ages BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.

BILINGUAL STORYTIME: Storytime in Spanish and English for children ages 0 to 6 years old. Media-hora de cuentos en ingles y español para niños de 0 a 6 años. First Sa of every month, 11-11:30am

through 9/7; Third Sa of every month, 1111:30am through 9/21. Free.

Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 3523200.

PAINT THE BEAR EVENT: The BEAR League hosts this event in the Corison Loft at the North Tahoe Arts Center as part of SnowFest. The Paint the Bear event is for budding artists of all ages who will be able to paint a wooden bear and take it home. The event will start after the parade and will be open until 1:30pm. Sa, 3/2, 12-1:30pm. North Tahoe Arts Center, Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

STORYTIME AT SUNDANCE BOOKS AND MUSIC: Local illustrator and visual arts teacher Paula Robison shares stories, rhymes, songs and art projects with children ages 3-6 who are accompanied by a chaperone. F, 3/1, 10:30-11:15am. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (774) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

TWEEN/TEEN ETIQUETTE: Social Style presents a free interactive seminar on etiquette in the 21st century for children ages 10-16.

This two-hour class will cover etiquette/manners basics, conversation starters/active listening skills, cell phone and internet etiquette, table manner basics, making introductions and silent messages. Reservation is required. Sa, 3/2, 12-2pm. Free. Social Style Reno, 1955 Sierra Oaks Court, (775) 443-6359, www.socialstylereno.webs.com.

THE WORLD OF SEUSS: In celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, listen to a reading of Horton Hatches an Egg. Learn about elephants and incubation, and create your own vessel to keep an egg safe for a drop off the museum’s balcony. Sa, 3/2, 11:45pm. $3-$5. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Shades of Red. Artists Co-op of Reno Gallery presents an all-member and friends showcase celebrating of one of the most passionate and fiery colors in the artist’s palette. There will be photography, paintings in all mediums, glass, jewelry, pottery, metal sculpture and more.

Through 2/28, 11am-4pm; Photo Fandango VII, More than 20 local photographers will be featured in this show. The reception is March 3 from 1-4pm. 3/1-3/31, 11am-4pm; Su, 3/3, 1-4pm. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

BUSINESS RESOURCE INNOVATION CENTER (THE BRIC): BRIC Art 3. The show features Jill Altmann’s fiber art, Steve Davis’ photography, Andy Gallian’s prints, Mimi Patrick’s ceramics, Stephen Reid’s drawings and watercolors and Gus Bundy’s paintings. M-Su. 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, (775) 283-7123.

K2 PINK CHASE TAHOE-SKI BOARD TELE EVENT: Pink Chase Tahoe is an adventurous day of ski instruction for advanced beginners through expert skiers ending in the ultimate skiing flash mob raising funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Moms on the Run. Complimentary continental breakfast and lunch included, as well as an event gift bag, free raffle, pink chase Tahoe Tshirt. There will be first-third place “Most Spirited” Dressed in Pink Awards as well as first-fourth place fund-raising awards. Th, 2/28, 8am-4pm. $50.

Winters Creek Lodge at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe, 21333 Highway 878/Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 742-3262, www.pinkchasetahoe.com.

LIVE SKYTONIGHT TALK: Learn about the nighttime sky during this presentation with the aid of state-of-the-art digital technology, followed by telescope viewing (weather permitting) at Rancho San Rafael Park. First F of every month, 6pm. $6 adults; $4 children, seniors.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, http://planetarium.unr.edu.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. Guests are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and use the observation deck to view the evening sky. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

PEOPLES AND ENVIRONMENTS OF NEVADA: Galena Creek Visitor Center presents a new series of talks that will focus on the history, prehistory and past and present environments of Nevada. The talks will be presented by local experts in the fields of federal and state resources management and specialists in their fields. Last Th of every month, 6pm through 8/31. $5 per person. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

START YOUR GARDEN: Learn what can you can plant right now to start the season.

Please RSVP as seating is limited. Sa, 3/2, 11am & 1pm. Free with canned food donation. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way, Sparks, (775) 355-1551, www.railcitygardencenter.com.

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This year may go down as one of the driest winters in our area’s history but the 32st annual SnowFest will go on as planned. North Lake Tahoe’s 10-day carnival celebrates the winter season with a variety of winter sports activities, parties, parades, contests and other fun events, including an opening night ceremony on March 1 at Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, that includes a torchlight parade, laser show and fireworks show. Other highlights include the Mamasake Extreme Food Challenge on March 1 at Squaw Valley, the 23rd annual Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim on March 2 at Carnelian Bay, Homewood’s SnowBomb Lil’ Air Contest on March 9 at Homewood Mountain Resort, the 25th annual Snow Sculpture Contest on March 10 at the River Ranch in Tahoe City and SnowFest parades on March 2 and March 9 in Tahoe City and Kings Beach, respectively. Admission to most events is free. For a schedule of SnowFest events, visit www.tahoesnowfestival.com.

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NEVER ENDER: Broken Hearts Collide 3. The third annual group show for Valentine’s Day. M-Su through 3/4. Free. 119 Thoma St., (775) 348-9440,

SIERRA ARTS: Barton McCoy: Collected Works.

Sierra Arts Gallery displays a collection of works spanning a decade created by Northern Nevada native Bart McCoy. McCoy uses both technique and symbolism dating back to the 16th century Dutch and Flemish masters to create intricate allegorical paintings. M-Sa, 10am-5pm through 3/8. Free.

17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

http://neverenderreno.com.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Heart ART. This exhibit celebrates the heart in all its forms. The show includes 2D and 3D fine art and jewelry and some fine crafting. M-Su through 3/11; North Tahoe High School Exhibit. The North Tahoe High School student exhibit under the new direction of teacher Jo Anna Battaglia is on display. M-Su through 2/28. Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

STREMMEL GALLERY: The Animal in Contemporary Art II, Contemporary artists Bill Braun, Bryan Christiansen, Catherine Courtenaye, Gaylen Hansen, Tom Judd, Leonard Koscianski, Ken Little, Adelaide Paul, Brad Rude and Tom Uttech incorporate animals into their respective works, capturing the playful, yet majestic essence of the wild.

Works range from oil on canvas to wood sculpture encased in leather. M-Sa through 3/23. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

RENO LITTLE THEATER: Anything Goes. Sierra Watercolor Society holds a special watercolor exhibit at Reno Little Theater. Call Nancy for exhibit viewings by appointment. M-Su through 4/28. 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 343-8100, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: The Way We Live: American Indian Art of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, W-Su through 3/3; BLOOM, W-Su through 6/16; Kim Abeles: From Studio to Street, W-Su through 4/14; Frohawk Two Feathers: And Those Figures Through the Leaves. And That Light Through the Smoke, W-Su through 6/9; Linda Besemer: Sine Language, W-Su through 5/19; Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, W-Su through 4/28; Jean-Pierre Bonfort: Travelling, W-Su through 5/5; Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York, W-Su through 7/7. Opens 3/2. $1-$10.

160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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My boyfriend of three months seems wonderful. He’s attentive and tries hard to please me, even in small ways. He’s always excited to see me. However, he never compliments me. He also seems uncomfortable being complimented. I called him handsome, and he mumbled something about it being dark. I could fish for compliments, but I’m not so much looking to be complimented as I am trying to make sure I’m not being blind to some red flag.

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Movies reveal a lot about men’s and women’s differing expectations for how men will communicate. Chick flicks are wall-to-wall chatter, down to that final scene where the male lead gets the girl—after giving a big speech about what an idiot he was not to love her from the start. In male-targeted action pix, the guy also gets the girl. All he has to do is grunt, glare and incinerate giant slimy things from outer space.

That said, the notion that men are mute lunks while women go around yapping like Yorkshire terriers isn’t supported by the research. In 50 Myths of Popular Psychology, Scott O. Lilienfeld and his co-authors note that when psychologist Dr. Janet Hyde crunched the data from 73 controlled studies, she found only a tiny overall difference in male and female talkativeness.

And when psychologist Dr. Matthias Mehl and his colleagues gave 396 college students portable audio recorders to walk around with, they found that both men and women spoke about 16,000 words a day.

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area, but it’s clear that men have deep feelings. They just don’t always communicate them in words. Many seem to walk the talk—showing their feelings instead of speaking them. And frankly, shows of affection are probably a better reflection of a man’s sincerity.

The thing is, research by Dr. Sara B. Algoe and others suggests that when romantic partners articulate appreciation for each other, both the appreciated partner and the partner doing the appreciating feel more bonded and satisfied with the relationship.

Your boyfriend may be uncomfortable getting compliments or just those he feels he hasn’t earned. But everybody likes to feel appreciated. Instead of remarking on his looks, tell him how he’s made life easier for you through some sweet thing he’s done, or admire how he’s solved some problem.

To encourage him to be more verbally expressive, sweetly tease him about how he hates to be complimented, and then tell him that it makes girls happy to hear they look pretty. Be appreciative for whatever effort he makes, and don’t start expecting miracles. Be mindful of the limitations of the typical heterosexual male, who, for example, is unlikely to ever notice your hair is different unless it happens to be on fire.

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The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra with music director Laura Jackson celebrates the bicentennial of the Star-Spangled Banner with an homage written exclusively for the orchestra and chorus by the acclaimed composer Michael Gandolfi. This concert combines visual direction and design by renowned artist Anne Patterson.

MICHAEL GANDOLFI: Chesapeake: Summer of 1814, World Premiere Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner, an Exclusive Commission for the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus WILLIAM SCHUMAN: Casey at the Bat, Cantata from The Mighty Casey, Featuring the Reno Philharmonic Chorus MANUEL DE FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat CONCERT PREVIEW:

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Tu-Su through Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612. musical instruments more.

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Dawn Patrollers arrive before general Dawn Patrollers arrive before thethe general adults; free children under 5/26 . $5. $5 adults; free forfor children under ageage 12. 12.

5/26 MANAKA: The Hawai’ian slack guitarist, MANAKA: The Hawai’ian slack keykey guitarist, public and take Tram High Camp public and take thethe Tram to to High Camp Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, 814814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, singer and composer perform part singer and composer willwill perform as as part of of 7:40am through before anyone else.

Sa,Sa, Su,Su, 7:40am through before anyone else. www.sparksmuseum.org. www.sparksmuseum.org.

University of Nevada, Reno’s 2012-13 thethe University of Nevada, Reno’s 2012-13 $12-$29.

Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw 3/24. $12-$29.

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TheThe Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

Creatures exhibit features educational Creatures exhibit features educational andand TURTLENECK TUESDAY SKATE NIGHTS: Hear your TURTLENECK TUESDAY SKATE NIGHTS: Hear your interactive elements kids, including a fossil VAMPIRATES interactive elements forfor kids, including a fossil VAMPIRATES TOUR PARTY: punk band U.S.U.S. TOUR PARTY: TheThe punk band favorite grooves from ’70s ’80s while favorite grooves from thethe ’70s andand ’80s while a glacier simulation display several dig,dig, a glacier simulation display andand several kicks off its 10-year anniversary U.S. tour kicks off its 10-year anniversary U.S. tour skate ’round 9,000 square-foot rink. youyou skate ’round thethe 9,000 square-foot rink.

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VILLAGE APRÈS MUSIC SERIES: Finish a day VILLAGE APRÈS MUSIC SERIES: Finish a day on on thethe slopes with free après music slopes with free livelive après skiski music at at TheThe WOLF PACK MEN’S BASKETBALL: University WOLF PACK MEN’S BASKETBALL: TheThe University of of 3-5pm through 3/30.

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TheThe filmfilm leads viewers a quest to understand how leads viewers on on a quest to understand how light pollution affects people planet. light pollution affects people andand thethe planet.

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Music Music BLUEGRASS JAM: Northern Nevada Bluegrass BLUEGRASS JAM: Northern Nevada Bluegrass First Association hosts this bluegrass jam.

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First Tu Tu Free.

Maytan Music of every month, 7-9pm.

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Center, S. Center (775) 323-5443, Center, 777777 S. Center St.,St., (775) 323-5443, www.nnba.org. www.nnba.org.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1993,

Frenchman Emile Leray was on a solo trip through the Sahara desert. In the middle of nowhere, his car suffered a major breakdown. It was unfixable. But he didn’t panic.

Instead, he used a few basic tools he had on hand to dismantle the vehicle and convert its parts into a makeshift motorcycle. He was able to ride it back to civilization. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically similar development in your future, Aries.

You will get the opportunity to be very resourceful as you turn an apparent setback into a successful twist of fate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your power

animal is not the soaring eagle or the shrewd wolf or the brave bear. No, Taurus, it’s the rubber chicken. I’m serious. With the rubber chicken as your guardian spirit, you might be inspired to commit random acts of goofiness and surrealism. And that would reduce tension in the people around you. It could motivate you to play jokes and pull harmless pranks that influence everyone to take themselves less seriously. Are you willing to risk losing your dignity if it helps make the general mood looser and more generous? Nothing could be better for group solidarity, which is crucial these days.

(Thanks, Gina Williams.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the lan-

guage of the Huron Indians, “orenda” is a word that refers to the spiritual power that resides in all creatures and things. If you’ve got enough of it, you may be able to declare at least partial independence from your own past. You can better shape the life you want for yourself rather than being so thoroughly subject to the limitations of your karma and conditioning. I happen to believe that your current supply of orenda is unusually abundant, Gemini. What’s the best use you can make of it?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I lived in Santa Cruz years ago, some of my published writings were illustrated by a local cartoonist named Karl Vidstrand. His work was funny, outrageous and often offensive in the most entertaining ways. Eventually, he wandered away from our colorful, creative community and moved to a small town at the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, near where the space shuttles landed. He liked living at the fringes of space, he told journalist R.D. Pickle. It gave him the sense of “being out of bounds at all times.” I suggest you adopt some of the Vidstrand spirit in the next three weeks, Cancerian. Being on the fringes and out of bounds are exactly where you belong.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The history of your

pain is entering a new phase. Gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, an emotional ache that has been sapping your vitality will begin to diminish. You will free yourself of its power to define you. You will learn to live without its oddly seductive glamour.

More and more, as the weeks go by, you will find yourself less interested in it, less attracted to the maddening mystery it has foisted on you. No later than mid-April, I’m guessing, that you will be ready to conduct a ritual of completion; you’ll be able to give it a formal send-off as you squeeze one last lesson out of it.

ing this is? You have a vigilant protector that’s always on duty, operating below the level of your awareness. What if I told you that this physical aspect of your organism has an equivalent psychic component?

What if, in other words, you have within you a higher intelligence whose function it is to steer you away from useless trouble and dumb risks? I say there is such a thing. I say this other protector works best if you maintain a conscious relationship with it, asking it to guide you and instruct you. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to deepen your connection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some rules in the game of life don’t apply to you and can therefore be safely ignored. Do you know which ones they are? On the other hand, do you understand which of the rules in the game of life are crucial to observe if you want to translate your fondest dreams into real experiences? To recognize the difference is a high art. I’m thinking that now would be an excellent time to solidify your mastery of this distinction. I suggest that you formally renounce your investment in the irrelevant rules and polish your skills at playing by the applicable rules.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter,” wrote the Persian mystic poet Rumi.

“It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” I think you’re like that winter garden right now, Sagittarius. Outwardly, there’s not much heat and flash. Bright ideas and strong opinions are not pouring out of you at their usual rates. You’re not even prone to talking too loud or accidentally knocking things over. This may in fact be as close as you can get to being a wallflower. And yet deep beneath the surface, out of sight from casual observers, you are charging up your psychic battery. The action down there is vibrant and vigorous.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When

you come right down to it,” says religion writer Rabbi Marc Gellman, “there are only four basic prayers. Gimme! Thanks! Oops! and Wow!” Personally, I would add a fifth type of prayer to Gellman’s list: “Do you need any assistance?” The Creator always needs collaborators to help implement the gritty details of the latest divine schemes.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be an excellent choice to volunteer for that role right now—especially in tasks that involve blending beautiful fragments, healing sad schisms, furthering peace negotiations and overcoming seemingly irreconcilable differences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the

movie Fight Club, there is an animated scene at the very end that required an inordinate amount of time to produce. Each frame in this scene took the editors eight hours to process. Since there are 24 frames in each second, their work went on for three weeks.

That’s the kind of attention to detail I recommend you summon as you devote yourself to your labor of love in the coming days, Aquarius. I think you know which specific parts of your creation need such intense focus.

BIG HEADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HEAD) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When looking

for a book, you may discover that you were in fact looking for the book next to it,” Italian writer Roberto Calasso told that to The Paris Review, and now I’m passing it on to you. But I’d like you to expand upon its meaning, and regard it as a metaphor that applies to your whole life right now. Every time you go searching for a specific something—a learning experience, an invigorating pleasure, a helpful influence—consider the possibility that what you really want and need is a different one that’s nearby.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At least once a

day, a cell in your body mutates in a way that makes it potentially cancerous. Just as often, your immune system hunts down that dangerous cell and kills it, preserving your health. Do you understand how amaz-

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I have

decided to rename the constellations that have domineered our skies too long,” writes an Internet denizen named Hasheeshee St. Frank. He gives only one example. The Big Dipper, he says, shall forevermore be known as “The Star-Spangled Gas Can.” I invite you to come up with additional substitutes, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to reshape and redefine the high and mighty things to which you have given away too much of your power. It’s a perfect moment to reconfigure your relationship with impersonal, overarching forces that have wielded a disproportionately large influence over your thoughts and feelings. How about if you call the constellation Orion by the new title of “Three-Eyed Orangutan”? Or instead of Pegasus, use the name “Sexy Dolphin”?

Other ideas?

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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Why those two albums?

We decided that those two albums would complement each other well and make a good history of Yes from the ‘70s, really.

The Yes Album is kind of an exciting album for us because that was like our first album that got us recognized on the international stage and put us in the spotlight. It was also the first album Steve Howe, our guitar player, had joined the band for. So, a bit of a landmark album. And Close to the Edge, which followed on later, was an album that was our first foray into area of doing the extra long form music that then Yes then became well known for, as in doing a whole one side of the album being the “Close to the Edge” song in itself, 20 minutes long. So that was sort of groundbreaking for us as well at the time. So we thought it would be a pretty good potted history of Yes.

For most of the tour you’re also doing the album Going for the One, but not in Reno ...

Yeah, I know, but you know these casino guys, they want people gambling. … That’s the bottom line on that, you know? … It is a bummer for me because we wanted to do all three albums everywhere, but you can’t argue with the man.

The trend of bands doing whole albums ...

It’s not a new thing. It’s a new thing for us.

Usually when we go out on the road, we usually have a new album to promote, and this is one of those very few occasions that we don’t actually have new music at the moment. We’ll be recording some new music later on in the year. But at the moment, we don’t actually have to focus on something new, so this idea came to fruition for us.

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I think of the pacing of a live show and the sequencing and pacing of an album as being two different rhythms. Do you agree with that?

Yes, we’re discovering that in rehearsal, which we are at the moment. We’ve been talking about maybe not having any talking or any kind of announcing between the songs on the separate albums. I don’t know how that’s going to pan out. Because, as you say, the dynamic is different. … It’s new for us, and we’re discovering right now how to handle it. I’m not even sure we’ll play the albums in chronological order. We might play Close to the Edge first, and then The Yes Album after that. We’re still working on it. We’re discovering in rehearsals what it’s like, because it is a different approach.

Yes is generally considered to be one of the defining bands of progressive rock. Do you agree with that?

I would say we have collected that title over the years. We were at the beginnings of that movement, and I guess probably the best known band from that era promoting that progressive label.

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I’d love to hear some of your secrets of tone and how you get that great sound.

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And I developed a relationship with my amplifier and guitar, and tones circuits and stuff. And when I started recording, we were working with Eddy Offord, who was engineer on all the early Yes albums, and he got a great sound for me in the studio as well. So it was a combination of quite a few things. But that’s how we ended up getting the great “Roundabout” bass guitar sound, and of course I’m grateful for that.

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For a lot of people, the rise of punk rock in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, was sort of a reaction against progressive rock. Do you agree with that or do you think that’s kind of a false dichotomy?

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